sorry that was a typo on my part...
s/perl/python
oops
if you look at the *.py files you would have seen they were python
I was aguring merits of python in my points.. sorry for the confusion the
typo caused...
Chris
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, curious wrote:
>
> > 2> alot of redhat's controlpanel stuff was (and probably still is) written
> > in perl (try locate *.py sometime)
>
> Actually, Python is used more at Red Hat these days than Perl. There's a
> good reason for it, eloquently stated by Alan Cox: you can't guarantee
> perl scripts won't break. They have in the past. For this reason, many
> programmers consider perl unacceptable for things that need to be
> installed on a wide variety of systems.
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